[Air-L] 2013 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series Features Jeremy Silver

[Shing-Ling (Sarina) Chen]

The 2013 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series will feature Jeremy
Silver.  Silver will deliver his lecture, “The Digital Medieval“, at 12:30
pm (London time) on Thursday, June 20 in Hilton Metropole, Board Room 1,
during the International Communication Association’s 63rd Annual
Conference, in London, UK, June 17-21.

Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, adviser and digital media thought-leader,
focused on innovation and growth in creative businesses.  He advises on the
creative industries at the UK Technology Strategy Board. He is Chairman of
Semetric, a real time analytics company providing actionable data to the
entertainment business and Chairman of MusicGlue, an artist’s services
company providing direct to consumer online ticketing to bands (including
for example, Mumford & Sons, Marillion, Enter Chikari). He is a non
executive director of the Bridgeman Art Library. He is Chairman of Gollant
Media Ventures.

Silver was CEO of Sibelius Software (a music notation software company)
which he led for six years and sold to Avid Technology, securing an exit
for the Founders and investors, Quester VCT.  During the first internet
bubble, Silver was worldwide Vice President of New Media for EMI Music
Group in London and then in Los Angeles. He went on to run the
playlist-sharing, social music service, Uplister Inc, based in San
Francisco, backed by August Capital. Silver began his music industry career
at the BPI as director of press & PR, and went on to become director of
media affairs at the Virgin Music Group, working closely with many artists
including Genesis, Meat Loaf, Brian Eno, Massive Attack and the Future
Sound of London.

Silver has presented and spoken on music and digital media at conferences
and seminars around the world including TEDx, Midem, Thinking Digital, and
In The City. Silver has a PhD in English Literature.  Silver’s intermittent
blog appears at www.mediaclarity.com

This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet
Research (www.cccsir.com), University of Illinois, Chicago, and the
International Communication Association.  For more information about this
event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen at uni.edu.